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(Application filed Nov. 22,1900.)

(No Model.)

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(Application led Nov. 22,' 1900.)

(No Model.)

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.47T YS ED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELISIIA A. ROUSE, CLAUDE DEE ROUSE, AND NELSON LEE ROUSE, OF

BOZEMAN, MONTANA.

GATE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 682,955, dated September 17, 1901.

Application filed November 22, 1900. Serial No. 37,335. (No model.) I

To @ZZ whom it may conceive:

Beit known that we, ELISHA A. Rouen,

CLAUDE DEE RoUsE,and NELSON LEE RoUsE, citizens of the United States, and residents of Bozeman, in the county of Gallatin and State of Montana, have invented a new and Im-v proved Gate, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The purpose of the vinvention is to provide a simple form of gate which when opened will be carried from a lower vertical position to an upper vertical position and to so construct the operating mechanism that in stormy weather the gate will be held in -either position.

A further purpose ofthe invention is to provide a latch constructed in cooperating seotions, both of which sections are simultaneously operated by a single lever, link, or its equivalent.

The invention consists in the novel construction and combination of the several parts, as will be hereinafter fully set forth,and pointed out in the claims. f

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification,

in which similar charactersof reference indi-v cate corresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the improved gate, illustrating in dotted lines the body portion of the gate in its upper position. Fig. 2 is an end view of the gate, one of the gate-posts being removed; and Fig. 3 is an end view of a gate, in which the construction of the operative mechanism is slightly changed. Fig. Iiis aperspective viewofa pivot-bar used in the construction shown in Fig. 3.

A represents two gateposts of suitable height, which are planted in the ground, and B represents the body portion of the gate, which body portion isprovided at eaohof its ends with extended end bars C. These end bars C of the gate are Apivoted by suitable pivots 10 to the gate-posts A, so that the gate may swing between the two posts. In both the open and the closed position of the gate the end bars C are in vertical position, but in the closed position of the gate its body B is in the lower position, (shown in positive lines in Fig. 1,) while in the open position of the gate the body B is in the elevated dotted position illustrated in the same figure. At the free ends of the end bars C of the gate boxes 1l are constructed, being attached, preferably, to the inner faces of the said end bars, as shown in Fig. 1, and these boxes are lled with gravel, sand, or other solid material to such an extent that they will counterbalance the weight of the body B of the gate and serve to carry the said body B V to either its upper or its lower position. The body B of the gate maybe of any suitable construction, and the said body is provided with a latch D. This latch is made in two sections 12 and 13, 'and each section is connected with a face of the body of the gate by a pivot-pin 14. The inner end of the section'12, for example, is provided with a V-shaped recess which receives a correspondingly-shaped projection from the opposing endl of the opposite section 13 of the latch, as is shown in Fig. l, so that when one member or section of the latch is raised or lowered the opposite section will be operated in a corresponding manner. The outer ends of the sections of the latch D are adapted,

when the gateis closed, to engage with keepers' 15, and these keepers are secured in any suitable or approved manner to the gate-posts A. The pivots 10, which connect the end bars O of the gate with the posts A, are located, preferably, at one side of the longitudinal center of the end bars or nearer the ends to which the gate is attached than those which carry the weight-boxes. At each side of one of the gate-posts A an auxiliary post is erected. These posts are designated, respectively, as E and E', and have recesses 16 produced in one of their side faces to permit the free action of the manipulating mechanism for the gate, which mechanism is to be hereinafter described. The auxiliary post E is provided with a lever 17, fulcrumed at its or near its top. These levers 17 and 17a are pivoted between their ends, and at the recessed side of the auxiliary post E an elbow or angle lever 18 is fulcrumed at a point below the recess 16 in said post, as is particularly shown in Fig. 2. At the corresponding side of the opposing auxiliary post E a second elbow or angle lever 18L is fulcrumed, and at the lower member of each of these 1eupper portion, and the opposite auxiliary post E has a corresponding lever 172L pivoted at IOO vers 18 and 18 a weight 19 is suspended, which serves to hold the body portion B of the gate either in its upper or in its lower position. The upper end of the elbow or angle lever 18 is pivotally connected by a link 2O with an upper side portion of a triangular plate 2l, which plate is pivoted on an outer face of an end bar C of the gate, and the contracted portion of the plate faces downward and is pivotally attached to said bar, as shown in Fig.2. At the upper or wider portion of this triangular plate 21 a curved slot 22 is transversely produced, and through this slot 22 a pin 23 extends, which pin is fastened to the end bar C of the gate, which carries the said plate 2l, as is also shown in Fig. 2. A second triangular plate 24 is pivoted in a reverse manner to the saine end bar C of the gate, the two plates 21 and 24 being at opposite sides of the pivot 10, connecting the end bar of the gate to an adjacent gate-post, as shown in Fig. 2. The lower plate 24 is provided with a transverse curved slot 25, through which a pin 26 is passed, guiding the movement of the said plate 24, as is also shown in Fig. 2, the said pin being made to enter the said end bar C of the gate. A link 27 is pivotally connected with the triangular plate 24 at 4the same side at which the link 20 connects with the upper pivoted plate 2l, and the said link 27 is pivotally attached to the upper portion of the angle or elbow lever 18a, carried by the auxiliary post E', as shown in Fig. 2. A rod 28 is pivotally attached to the upper pivoted triangular plate 21 at a point opposite where the link 2O connects with said plate, and this rod 28 is provided intermediate of its ends with a horizontal section which is passed through an aperture in the lower pivoted plate 24 at the corresponding side of said plate, and the rod 28 extends below the pivoted plate 24 and is pivotally connected with one end of the latch D. A link 29 connects the lower end of the angle or elbow lever 18 with the inner end of the lever 17, mounted at the upper end of the auxiliary post E, which lever 17 and the corresponding lever 17 a are actuating-'levers and are manipulated to open and to close the gate. The inner end of the upper lever 17 is connected by a link 30 with the lower end of the angle or elbow lever 18a. Thus it will be observed that the inner ends of the manipulating-levers 17 and 17a are connected with the weighted portions of the angle or elbow levers 18 and 18a. Each manipulating-lever 17 and 172t is provided with a rod 17b at its outer end; but these rods 17b maybe replaced by ropes or chains, if desired.

In the operation of the form of gate above described, the gate being in its closed position, should the actuating-lever 17 be drawn down the sections of the latch operating together will be disengaged from the keepers 15 by reason of the rod connection between the pivoted plates 2l and 24 and the end of the latch, and as the lever 17 is further carried downward the body of the gate will be carried upward until it is slightly past its center, whereupon the upper weights 1l will act to carry the end bars C to a lower vertical position and the body of the gate to the upper position, (shown in dotted lines in Fig. 1,) and the auxiliary weights 19 of the elbow or angle levers 18 and 18a will serve to hold the gate in its upper position. After a person has passed through the gate and draws down upon the opposing manipulating-lever17 the body of the gate is immediately restored to its lower or closed position and is held in that position not only by the auxiliary weights 19, but also by reason of the sections of the latch D engaging with the aforesaid keepers 15.

In Fig. 3 wehave illustrated a slight modication in the mechanism for operating the gate, and the gate is pivoted to one post only by the form of pivot 10 shown in the other views, whereas the pivotal connection between the gate and the opposing post is effected through the medium of a U-'bar 3l, (shown in detail in Fig. 4,) one member 31 of which bar is longer than the opposing member 3lb and each member terminates in an eye 31C. The eye of the longer member 3ln of this pivot-bar 31 is connected by links 32 with the inner ends of both of the mani pulating-levers 17 and 17a, while the shorter member 3]b ot' the said pivot-bar 31 is connected by a link 33 with an end of the latch D, and a weight 34 is attached to the bar C of the gate, through which the pivot-bar 31 passes, the attachment being made at a point above the pivot-bar when the gate is in its closed position.

The operation of the gate under the modi# ed form of operating mechanism is the same as that which has been described, the weight 34 acting in the place of the weights 19, and the end bars C of the gate are also weighted at their free ends. Thus by drawing down upon one of the manipulating-levers the gate is opened and carried from a lower vertical to an upper vertical position, and when the other lever is manipulated the gate is restored to its normal position, being held in both positions by the overbalance-weight 34.

Having thus described our invention, we claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patentl. A gate mounted to swing vertically, levers substantially as described for operating said gate, and weights carried by the levers, adapted in certain positions of the levers to hold the body of the gate in an upper or in a lower position, as described.

2. A gate mounted to swing vertically and provided with end bars extending from its body, and weights at the free ends of the bars, a latch for the said gate, actuating-levers, supports independent of the gate upon which said levers are mounted, angle-levers carried by the said supports, reversely-located plates pivoted on the gate, and linkconnections between the angle-levers and actuating loo izov

levers and the angle-levers and said plates, likewise a connection between the said plates and the latch for the gate, for the purpose specified. v

8. The combination, with gate-posts, a gatebod y provided with end bars extending therefrom, which end bars are pivotally connected with said posts, weights at the free ends of the said end bars, keepers carried by the said posts, and a latch constructed in interlocking sections, the sections having independent pivotal connection with the body of the gate, the ends of the said sections of the latch being adapted for engagement with the said keepers, of auxiliary posts located one at each side of the gate-post, actuating-levers fulcrumed upon the auxiliary posts, angle or elbow 1evers likewise fulcrumed on the said auxiliary posts, weights carried by the said angle or elbow levers, reversely-located triangular plates pivoted and having guided movement upon one of the end bars of the said gate, link connections between the weighted portions of the angle or elbow levers and the inner ends of the actuating-levers, a link connection between the upper portion of one of the angle-levers and the upper pivoted plate, and a corresponding connection below the lower pivoted plate and the opposing angle or elbow lever, and a connection between the two pivoted plates and the end of the said latch, for the purpose described.

4. A gate mounted to swing vertically and provided with a counterbalance at its normal upper end, a keeper carried by the supports for the gate, a latch carried by the gate, constructed in coperating sections, a mechanism for operating the latch, levers connected with the gate and latch mechanism, serving to operate the latch and swing the gate upon its pivots, and an auxiliary weight which acts upon the gate to hold the same in adjusted position, as described.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses. v

ELISHA A. ROUSE. CLAUDE DEE ROUSE. NELSON LEE ROUSE. Witnesses:

JACOB BRION, ELMER BEswIoK. 

